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Course 55023-A: Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 for Runbook Authors

Course 55023-A: Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 for Runbook Authors

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This is a one or two-day instructor-led course that provides participants with knowledge and skills to begin to use System Center Orchestrator. The course focuses on use of Orchestrator after its installation. It also focuses on how IT processes can be automated using Orchestrator.

There are two versions of this course: one-day / 7 hours / 420 minutes without Hands-on Labs, and two-day / 14 hours / 840 minutes with Hands-on Labs. The Course Outline listed here is for the two-day, 14-hour course. The one-day, 7-hour course covers the same presentation material in the same order, condensed to one day as labs are not included.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for Enterprise Systems Engineers, Administrators and System Integrators in the role of Runbook Authors tasked with automating IT processes using Microsoft® System Center Orchestrator 2012.

Prerequisites

  • Experience performing IT activities including deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting Windows-based computers as a Windows Server Administrator.
  • Familiarity with basic programming constructs including data types, operators, variables, expressions, assignment, simple I/O, and conditional and iterative flow control structures / selection (if-then iteration; loops, for, while).
  • Experience as a user of Active Directory.
  • Familiarity with System Center features and functionality.
  • It is recommended that participants obtain the following Microsoft certifications or have equivalent knowledge of MCTS: System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring (Exam: 70-400), MCTS: Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Configuration (Exam: 70-403), MCTS: Windows Server Virtualization, Configuration (Exam: 70-652).
  • An understanding of the System Center and Virtualization is desired, specifically Virtual Machine Manager 2012, Operations Manager 2007 R2, Service Manager 2012, Virtualization Technologies Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2, Automated deployment of server technologies.

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction to System Center Orchestrator 2012
Module Overview

This module provides an overview of System Center Orchestrator 2012 architecture.

Lessons

System Center Orchestrator Architecture
Orchestrator key Concepts and Terminology

Lab Sessions

Not available for this module

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

List the components of System Center Orchestrator 2012’s architecture and describe their functionality.
Describe the role of integration packs (IPs), the Orchestrator Integration Toolkit (OIK) and Solution Development Kit (SDK) in extending Orchestrator functionality.
Define Orchestrator key concepts and terminology.

Module 2: Runbook Designer, Standard Activities, and Runbook Tester
Module Overview

This module walks participants through the Runbook Designer and Runbook Tester and demonstrates their functionality, and lists and describes Standard Activities.

Lessons

Tour of the Runbook Designer
Standard Activities
Tour of the Runbook Tester

Lab Sessions

Understanding the Orchestrator environment

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the layout and functionality of the Orchestrator Runbook Designer user interface used by Runbook Designers to create, modify, and deploy Runbooks.
Describe the layout and functionality of the Runbook Tester interface used to test Runbooks before deployment.
List and describe Standard Activities: Scheduling, Monitoring File Management, Email, Notification, Utilities, Active Directory, Windows Tasks, Text File Management.

Module 3: Tour of the Orchestration Console and Deployment Manager, Data Store Configuration
Module Overview

This module walks participants through the Orchestration Console, Deployment Manager and Data Store Configuration and demonstrates their functionality.

Lessons

Tour of the Orchestration Console
Tour of Deployment Manager and Data Store Configuration

Lab Sessions

Deployment Manager

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the layout and functionality of the Orchestration Console used by Runbook Designers for Runbook execution and status checking (versus authoring), including viewing the real-time status of jobs and running instances, and starting and stopping Runbooks, jobs, or instances.
Describe the layout and functionality of the Deployment Manager tool used by Runbook Designers to deploy integration packs (IPs), Runbook servers, and Runbook Designers.
Describe the functionality of Data Store Configuration.

Module 4: Runbook Design Basics
Module Overview

This module walks through how to create Runbooks using basic Runbook Designer programmatic constructs.

Lessons

Viewing and setting Runbook, Activity and Smart Link properties and permissions
Runbook Control and Data Flow and Manipulation

Lab Sessions

Runbook Design

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

View or set Runbook, Activity and Smart Link properties and permissions, and list common Activity properties.
List and describe the basics of Runbook control flow and data control flow and manipulation, including:
Sequence, selection (branching), iteration (looping) for both activities and nested Runbooks
Smart Links and link logic
Junctions
Managing published data, subscription, multi-value data, flattening, data mapping, inter-Runbook data passing, data manipulation functions, handling of persistent data.

Module 5: Creating Basic Runbooks in Runbook Designer
Module Overview

This module walks through how to use create basic Runbooks in System Center Orchestrator 2012.

Lessons

Viewing and setting Runbook, Activity and Smart Link properties and permissions
Runbook Control and Data Flow and Manipulation

Lab Sessions

Creating Basic Runbooks

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create basic workflows in Runbook Designer, including:
Simple File Management
Managing an Operating System
Read data from the Service Manager CMDB
Correlate the data from Operations Manager, the CMDB, and Configuration Manager
Take action on impacted devices and remediate the root cause of the alert
Keep incident and problem management up to date throughout the process
The remediation can be as easy as
Deploying software using the Configuration Manager Integration Pack
Executing a PowerShell script
Calling a third party tool to perform maintenance actions
Describe Runbook Design best practices, how a Runbook executes.

Module 6: Summary and Wrap
Module Overview

This module summarizes key points for each topic in the course, identifies topic areas to focus on and review, and helps participants prepare to apply the concepts back on the job.

Lessons

Module summary

Lab Sessions

Not available for this module

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe and summarize the most important points for each module.

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